I have a question. Do people (who have barely heard about paintball) ever laugh when you tell them you are a pro paintballer?

Because I know that when people meet me and ask if I play any sports; It has gotten to the point were I just say "no", because after I tell them I play paintball they look at me and say "ok, do you play any real sports?"

I can't even imagine how pro paintballers feel when they tell people that they are professional paintball players

Anyway, I'm excited to see you guys playing pro ball this year and wish you the best of luck.

panecrane, when I tell people I play paintball most of the time they tend to know what it is. Most of the time they assume that we are playing in the woods and sometimes I will come across someone who knows about the sup' air fields or sometimes even xball or race-to fields, but I try to explain as best as I can. Pictures or videos always help. Believe it or not I haven't had a single person laugh at me or think it's silly yet. Everyone that I talk to thinks it is really cool and they tend to ask me all sorts of questions about it.

overshot01, I have piece of paper from one of those colleges that says I'm smarter now that it hangs on my wall underneath a piece of glass in a fancy picture frame and I have a full time job thanks to. So that is how I afford to play paintball, when I was still in college I had a part time job and saved every penny I could in order to drive to practice and play on the weekends. I also became very good at eating teammates leftovers to save some cash when it came time to eat

@Overshot01 - Just like everyone else we sacrifice in other areas of our life to do what we love and what we want to be good at. It's a little easier now with great sponsors like Dye, Draxxus and Insane Paintball.

And your right grin24. My parents came to my last event. They have always supported me, but they never really got what paintball was all about. Needless to say they were amazed at the fast-paced games and the amount of people/teams that were there.

What I tell people now is come to one of my events and see what I do, or go try paintball for yourself and then let me know what you think.